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of a thoroughbred. Her record is only 2.181, but she 
beat all the fastest horses of her day, including Dexter, 
Mountain Boy, Goldsmith Maid, American Girl, Lucy, 
and George Palmer, and had it not been for an injury 
to her hip received while she was being taken from 
a car she would doubtless have lowered this record. 
The accident compelled her retirement from the 
turf. There is a tradition that Dan Mace once drove 
Lady Thorne a mile in 2.08 and a fraction, and it is 
fairly well established that she trotted a trial mile 
in 2.104. 
The best son of Mambrino Patchen is Mambrino 
King,’ now twenty years of age, but still a prize 
winner at horse shows. There is a singular unanimity 
of opinion about this animal, for, so far as I can as- 
certain, all who have seen him pronounce Mambrino 
King to be the handsomest horse in the world. Such 
is the judgment of Mr. Robert Bonner, for example, 
in this country, of Mr. Burdett-Coutts in England, and 
of those Continental connoisseurs in horse-flesh who 
have visited this country. Among the latter is Baron 
Favorot de Kerbeck, a French Colonel of Dragoons, 
who, with two other officers, was sent to the United 
States by his government, a few years ago, to inspect 
our horses. He reported: — 
-“Mambrino King is the most splendid specimen we 
have had an opportunity of admiring. Imagine an 
Alfred de Dreux, a burnt chestnut, whole colored,' 
standing 15.3 hands, with an expressive head, large, 
intelligent, and spirited eyes, well opened lower jaws, 
well set ears, the neck and shoulders splendidly shaped, 
1 His dam was by Edwin Forrest, a half-bred horse raised in 
Kentucky. 
